Design–Nation

Design-Nation’s leading membership programme champions excellence in UK-based makers and designers, creating innovative and inclusive opportunities for the contemporary design and craft sector for 25 years. Design-Nation works with partners and independent industry experts, supporting and promoting a carefully selected portfolio of highly skilled craftspeople who demonstrate authenticity and exceptional design ability.

For Collect 2025, Design-Nation presents a baker’s dozen of craft professionals who explore juxtapositions and contrasts in finely honed artwork. These makers test tensions between order and disorder, between human-formed and natural forms, between the newly created and the re-imagined past. Respect for material, shape and structure is paramount. Elements brought together in new and unexpected combinations create highly collectible objects for the 21st century.

Artists

• Louise Bell (ceramics)
• Kim Colebrook (ceramics)
• Hannah Gibson (glass)
• Adele Howitt (ceramics)
• Denise Jaques (mixed media)
• Jane King (ceramics)
• Hannah Lane (mixed media)
• Ömer Öner (ceramics)
• Kira Phoenix K’inan (glass)
• Anna Rennie (metal)
• Deborah Timperley (glass)
• Carola van Dyke (fibre)
• Zoë Wilson (stone)

Contact

c/o Centre for Culture & Creativity
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool,
Lincoln LN6 7TS
UK

@design_nationuk

Clare Edwards
Director

Hayley Banks
Membership lead

Richard Foot
Exhibitions lead

Liz Cooper
Strategy & development